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Running a small business is not easy, especially when you’re growing your company and expanding your team. Implementing a project tracking software has a multitude of benefits that not only helps you and your employees remain organized, but it can take your business to the next level, allowing you to succeed against the competition.

Time is the killer of all deals. How often does it feel like you have just spoken with someone within the past few days, and in reality it has been weeks, a month or more? In our busy work life, you begin to realize the mind has a way of playing funny tricks on you and your memory. This is doubly true to a busy salesperson. Salespeople are constantly juggling new leads, customer relationships, active projects and life in general.

With that in mind, if that busy salesperson doesn’t act on a new lead or an insight — new information about your prospect — the lead or opportunity loses the strength of being actionable. By not acting in a timely manner, the opportunity to change the course of a business outcome can pass or be diminished greatly.

The Problem

8 out of 10 entrepreneurs who start businesses fail within the first 18 months. Only 4% of the 28 million companies in the US ever reach more than $1MM in revenue. Of those firms, only 1 out of 10 (0.4% of all companies) ever make it to $10MM in revenue. Only 17,000 companies make it to $50MM. The primary reason that entrepreneurs fail is because they don’t have real-time metrics and dashboards to navigate through their entrepreneurial journey. Since entrepreneurs are flying blind, just like a plane without instrumentation in the cockpit, the businesses crash and burn.